Firstly to say i am completely new to this.
I have offered to help a friend tweak their website (built by a web developer and use wordpress)
I decided my first step was to create a local version of the site so that i could safely tweak their site offline ie practice
I have followed a step by step guide to do this and have installed xampp 1.7.7. I have used firezilla to copy my wp-contents folders and copied this in xampp/htdocs/mywordpress folder.
I have backup the original live database and altered the website references to localhost/mywordpress.
I believe i am now at the stage of importing this database. Logging into xampp and then phpMyadmin, i navigate to mywordpress and select import and am trying to import the database file into mywordpress. I receive the following error:
#1050 - Table 'wp_commentmeta' already exists
As i said i have extremely new to this so any detailed step by step notes would be hugely appreciated, and please do tell me if i need to start again and again if so, what steps i need to follow
thank you